Brick conveyer



J. SIEWIOREK.

BRICK CONVEYER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 8,1921.

1,407,173, Patented Feb. 21, 1922.

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BRICK CONVEYER.

ATION FILED JULYB APPLIC 1921. I 1 ,407,.173 Patented Feb. 21, 1922.

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To all whom z'tm'dy cohcerm I I Beit known that 1, JO N. Smw o mK, a citizen of-the United States, residing at Geneva, inthe county of Ashtabula and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brick Conveyers, of

which the following is a specification.

This invention has for one of its objects the provision of a conveyer for bricks, paving stones and like articles, from a source of supply to points along its length or conversely, to receive such articles and deliver the same at one end.

Another object is to provide means where by the conveyer may be moved transversely of its length as the. work progresses.

A further purpose is to furnish means for adjusting the height of one end of the conveyer as may be necessary for its operation.

These several objects are attained by the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and shown in the accompanying drawings, forming a material part of this disclosure, and in which Figure 1 is a side elevational view of a conveyer made in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the same.

Figure 3 is an end elevational view looking from the raised end.

Figure 4 is a plan view of a modified type of conveyer roller.

Figure 5 is a perspective view of the conveyer fully assembled and shown in operation.

In the drawings the numeral 10 is used to designate in general a paved roadway having curbs 11 and 12 at its respective sides,

beyond which a pavement 13 is indicated, the paving material being represented by the bricks or stones 1 1 individually.

The conveyer is adapted to travel over the paved surface, moving the bricks into position convenient of access at any point in the width of the road, as best shown in Fi ure 5.

pecifically the conveyer is comprised of a frame having a pair of spaced beams 15 rigidly connected and supported upon rollers 16 arranged to rotate freely between their ends on spindles 17, these rollers being so proportioned that their wide peripheries extend below the edges of the beams as shown, constituting a truck.

A pair of spaced uprights 18 are rigidly secured between the beams 15, extending in Specification of Letters-Patent. Patgflfed'lieb; 1922, Application filed July 8, 1921. Serial a, 483,167. 2 I i and have longitudinalgrooves 19 in their inner adjacent suffi es.

Ashaft20 is journalled in the uprights,

near, their upper endspthe shaftextending' outwardly at one end and secured to'it is a ratchet wheel 21,, having a fixed stud 22 set in its o uter side, the stud being pivotally connected with an operating handle 23, so that the same may be extended and used as a crank for rotating the shaft.

Pivoted on the adjacent upright is a pawl 24, engageable with the teeth of the ratchet wheel 21, maintainingit from movement in one direction.

A pair of cables 25 are fixed at one of their ends to the shaft 20 and can be wound thereon as the shaft is turned, the other ends of the cables being engaged with a cross bar 26 extending between the uprights and guided by the grooves 19 therein.

A pair of beams, arranged in two sections 28 and 29, are rigidly secured at their abutting ends by plates 30 and 31, through which are passed bolts 32 forming firm, unyielding joints, this construction permitting the interchange of beams so that difierent aggregate lengths can be obtained.

. The outer elements 29 have bolted to their upper surfaces, a yoke 33 made of flat strip metal, bent to form a support 34: for a stud 35 on which is revolubly' mounted a wheel 36 having a flange 37, the face of the wheel being slightly conical as shown.

Journalled at uniformly spaced intervals} By rotating the shaft 20, the bar and end' ofthe' conveyer beams will obviously be raised to any desirable height so that bricks, from a pile as shown, may when placed on the free turning rollers 40, be moved by gravity down the inclined surface presented and taken off at any desired point as inclicateds It will be apparent that as the roadway is paved, the entire structure may be pushed along over the finished surface so that a continuous supply of brick isdelivered contiguous to the point Where required.

It will also be evident that in removing the bricks from a road-way, the same structure may-be used, the bricks being delivered at the lovver end of the conveyer.

Having thus describedmy inventiom what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letter's Paten is 1. A eonveyer domprising a pair of spaced sectional beams, means for uniting the sectionsthereof, a;plurality of freely revoluble rollers "journall'ed between said beams, a conically faced support wheel mounted at one end ofsaid beams, said wheel having a flange on the side adj acent the rollers, means for positively raising and lowering the other end of the beams, and means for retaining the beams in adjustment.

2. A gravity operated conveyer comprising a pair of beams adjustable in length to suit the Width of a street, a truck mounted on rollers, said truck having grooved uprights, a Windlass mounted in said uprights, a bar movable in the grooves therein by said Windlass, said bars supporting one end of said beams, a yoke connecting the "opposite ends of said beams, a conical flanged Wheel revolubly mounted on said yoke, and a plurality of closely spaced rollers freely rotatable between said beams.

In witnesswhereof I 'afiix my signature.

' J OHN SIEWIOREK; 

